Play Google Black Hole Easter Egg
Quick Facts
- Summary
- Click the black hole icon and watch the page get sucked into the center, then slowly piece itself back together.
- Creator
- elgooG,
inspired by Baidu - Launched
- 2024
- Status
- Available on elgooG
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How It Was Made
The Core Idea
The Black Hole Effect uses a familiar science-fiction image: objects being drawn toward a dark center. Here, the objects are the text, images, and controls of a Google-style results page.
The animation transforms the page itself, drawing its elements inward before restoring their original positions.
Inspiration and Development
Baidu had a search trick that pulled results into a black hole before bringing them back. This page adapts that idea to a Google-style layout as an independent creation.
The Easter Egg Experience
What Stands Out
At first, it looks like an ordinary results page. The search bar sits at the top, the links are lined up in neat rows, and a small black hole icon keeps spinning beside the results.
Click the icon and things start to move. A black hole opens in the middle of the screen, and pieces of the page drift toward it, shrinking as they get closer until they disappear one after another. Then the hole fades, the pieces come back, and the page returns to normal.
How It Works
As the text, images, and controls approach the center, they shrink until they disappear into the black hole.
Once the page has collapsed, the sequence reverses: each piece returns to its place, and the view moves back near the top. The black hole icon then reappears so you can run the effect again.
How to Try It
- Click the button above to open the search-results page.
- Look for the small rotating black hole icon near the results.
- Click or tap the icon to begin the effect.
- Watch the black hole grow in the middle of the screen and pull text, pictures, links, and buttons inward.
- Let the cycle finish as the hole fades and the page pieces return to their places.
As the page expands from the center, the swallowed elements return in reverse order, rebuilding the layout one piece at a time.
Final Thoughts
Watch the edges of the page as well as the center: even the navigation and footer get pulled into the hole before everything returns to its place.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the Black Hole Effect?
The Black Hole Effect is an unofficial browser animation that puts a spinning black hole icon inside your search results.
When you click the icon, a black hole opens in the middle of the screen. Text, images, links, and buttons drift toward it, shrink, and disappear.
After the collapse, the page returns to its original layout. The effect is an independent creation inspired by Baidu search animations, not an official Google feature.
How do I trigger the black hole?
Click the button above to open the page, then find the small rotating black hole icon near the search results.
Click or tap that icon. The animation plays by itself, puts the page back together when it is done, and then shows the icon again so you can have another go.
Is this like Google Gravity or Floating Google?
They are all Google-style visual tricks, but each one moves the page in a different way. Google Gravity drops the pieces to the bottom, and Floating Google lets them float around the screen.
The Black Hole Effect pulls the whole page into one dark spot, lets it disappear for a moment, and then puts everything back where it was.
